RaveThe Boston Globe\"Owing to Deborah Smith’s skillful and painstaking translation, each story is presented in an inventive way ... But where Kang excels is in her unflinching, unsentimental descriptions of death. I am hard pressed to think of another novel that deals so vividly and convincingly with the stages of physical decay. Kang’s prose does not make for easy reading, but there is something admirable about this clear-eyed rendering of the end of life.\
